The EU’s Controversial Digital Single Market Directive - Part II: Why the Proposed Mandatory Text- and Data-Mining Exception Is Too Restrictive - Kluwer Copyright Blog

"The proposed European Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive would mandate a new copyright exception to enable nonprofit research and cultural heritage institutions to engage in text- and data-mining (TDM). The European Commission and the Council recognize that digital technologies have opened up significant opportunities for using TDM techniques to make new discoveries by computational analysis of large data sets. These discoveries can advance not only natural but also human sciences in ways that will benefit the information society."